AI coaching for vocational education and workforce development
Put AI in your learners' hands. Grounded in the qualification.
Your learners are already using AI. Nova 5 gives them one built from your units of competencyskill standards: a coach that knows the unit, speaks their trade and runs on their phone. From your programme it builds a full programme's worth of practice in about 20 minutes, and keeps it current.
- Every activity mapped to your training packagestandards
- Your people approve every change
- Your assessors make every competency decision
Why Nova 5
Your learners are already using AI. Give them one built from your units.
Most of it is a general chatbot: ungrounded, unsupervised and invisible to you. Nova 5 is one you can stand behind. The learner gets a coach for every unit, on their phone, in their trade and language. You keep the judgement: your people approve what it says, every activity maps to a requirement, and your assessors decide.
A coach that knows the unit
Role plays, simulations and coached practice built from the unit of competencystandard they are working towards, in their industry and their language, including te reo Māori. At 6am in the ute, after a shift, or between classes.
AI you can stand behind
Built from your programme, mapped to every requirement, and checked by an AI reviewer before a learner sees it. Your people approve new designs and any change to validated content. Nothing changes on its own.
The same coach for all of them
Not only the learners who can afford a tutor or get the trainer's attention. Every learner on the programme gets the same practice, whether they are on campus, in a workplace or three hours from either.
Current. Contextual. Compliant.
Practice that stays right, sounds like your workplace, and holds up at audit.
Your practice stays up to date
Nova 5 checks every month for changes to the training packagestandards and your content. It flags what has changed for you to review and approve. Validated content never changes on its own.
Built around your learners
Practice set in your industry, your workplace and your learners' language, including te reo Māori. Hear the te reo test →
Mapped, and ready for audit
Every activity is mapped to your training package and units of competencyskill standards and unit standards, so you can show where practice covers each requirement. Voice role plays can be kept as additional evidence, alongside direct observation.
Works inside your LMS, or on its own.
Why it's called Nova 5
Every learner, a coach. Every place, a classroom.
Vocational learning is about doing, yet most of it is still reading and recall: PDFs, slides and a quiz at the end. Real practice happens only when a trainer is in the room. Nova 5 builds the practice, keeps it current and puts it on the learner's phone. The road, the café, the site is the classroom.
The fifth generation of self-directed learning.
- 1800sCorrespondenceLearning from print, by post.
- 1970sMultimediaPrint plus audio, video and computer-based learning.
- 1980sTelelearningTeleconferencing, videoconferencing and broadcast.
- 1990sFlexible learningOnline courses and the internet, through the LMS.
- NowIntelligent flexible learningAI coaching that builds itself, responds to every learner and stays current. This is Nova 5.
The five generations are James Taylor's model of distance education, from the University of Southern Queensland. He described the fifth as learning that responds to the learner automatically. Nova 5 is that fifth generation, by his definition.
30+ ways to learn and practise
Nova 5 picks the activity to suit the concept.
A judgement call becomes a role play with a difficult client. A risky procedure becomes a fault finder, or a scenario where an early mistake comes back later. A process becomes a walkthrough. Every type below is built from your programme and mapped to your unitsstandards.
Practise it · 16
- Role play
- Branching scenario
- Fault finder
- Escape room
- Sim game
- Hazard identification
- Arcade game
- Calculation practice
- Classify and sort
- Daily dose
- Document task
- Match game
- Sequencing
- Time trial
- Quiz
- Revision conversation
Learn it · 15
- Animated explainer
- Concept visual
- Explorable 3D model
- Explorable atlas
- Explorable diagram
- Interactive model
- Lecture
- Memory scene
- Podcast episode
- Process walkthrough
- Study notes
- Video explainer
- Whiteboard lesson
- Audiobook
- Song
How it works
Three steps, and the first two take about 20 minutes.
Give Nova 5 your programme
Upload your training package unitsstandards, learner guides and anything else your learners work from. Accredited or not.
It builds the learning and practice
In about 20 minutes Nova 5 reads the programme, decides what's worth practising and builds it: role plays, scenarios, fault finders and the rest, each mapped to the unitsstandards. You review and approve.
Your learners practise anywhere
On their phone from a link, inside your LMS through SCORM or LTI, or on Nova LMS if you don't have one. A coach sits beside every activity.
Works with
Stays current
When the training packagestandard changes, your practice doesn't quietly fall behind.
Every month Nova 5 checks the training packagestandards and your source content for changes, and flags what moved and which activities it touches. You review and approve. Nothing you've validated changes without you.
- A monthly check against training.gov.auNZQA and your content
- Changes flagged for you, never pushed to learners on their own
- Validated content never changes on its own
- 1DetectedA unitstandard on your scope is superseded, or your learner guide is updated.
- 2FlaggedNova 5 lists what changed and which activities it affects.
- 3ApprovedYour quality lead reviews the rebuilt activities and approves them.
- 4LiveLearners get the current version on their next visit. Nothing else moved.
For workplace L&D
Your inductions and internal programmes, built for you.
Your people are already using AI at work. Give them one built from your induction, product training or internal programme. No instructional design team needed: Nova 5 turns it into practice people use on the job, and you decide what it says.
Completion tracking and certificates
See who has finished what, and issue a certificate when they have.
Open sign-up for staff
Share one link. Your people sign themselves up and start on their phone.
Multilingual
Practice in the languages your staff speak, from the same source programme.
Hader Institute of Education · Australian RTO
The first diploma completed on Nova 5.
Hader teaches the people who will sit with Australians through addiction, crisis and recovery. When its learning moved onto Nova 5, the first learner through the new Diploma of Counselling became the first person to complete a full diploma on it.
"When I asked her how she found the new units, she said it was like moving from driving an old car to a Tesla."
"What you generated there. Amazing. Better than anything that I've seen in our industry."
Ewen Graves — Co-owner, The Training Generation
"I did it on my phone. I pretended I was a student, and I just found that to be so easy."
Pauline Grant-Smith — RTO Manager, ATTC
"Where we're getting stuck is learners aren't confident completing the assessment, and they're being withdrawn because they haven't got any tools like this to help them."
Denise McErlean — Learning Support Manager, Te Mahi Ako
Questions
What providers ask about Nova 5.
Nova 5 is AI coaching for vocational education and workforce development. Give it a training programme, accredited or not, and in about 20 minutes it builds a full programme's worth of learning and practice across 30+ activity types, each mapped to your units of competencyskill standards, then keeps it current. Learners use it on their phone, inside your LMS or on Nova LMS.
No. Nova 5 builds practice and coaching. Your assessors make every competency decision, and direct observation stays the gold standard. Voice role plays can be kept as additional evidence alongside it.
The fifth generation of self-directed learning. James Taylor's model of distance education runs from correspondence, through multimedia, telelearning and flexible online learning, to a fifth generation he called intelligent flexible learning: learning that responds to the learner automatically. Nova 5 is that generation.
A$5NZ$5 per learner a month, less at scale, with every practice type included, plus A$10NZ$10 a month for each unitstandard Nova 5 builds and keeps current. Annual plans, from 250 learners. The pricing page has a calculator.
Yes. Import Nova 5 experiences into your LMS as SCORM packages, with progress tracked there, or launch Nova 5 from inside your LMS through LTI. If you don't have an LMS, run it on Nova LMS.
An AI reviewer checks every activity for grounding, correctness, safety and cultural respect before it reaches a learner. Your people approve new programme designs and any change to validated content. More on the Responsible AI page.
Pricing
Competence, practised anywhere.
A$5NZ$5 per learner a month, less at scale. About the price of a coffee, with every practice type included.
Plus A$10NZ$10 a month for each unitstandard Nova 5 builds and keeps current. Annual plans, from 250 learners.
Teaching face to face? Nova Classroom runs the same activities with a class in the room. Resource studio or consultancy? See the partner programme. Outside Australia and New Zealand? Nova 5 for your market.